The Differences Between iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max
The Differences Between iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max
Each year, iPhone enthusiasts eagerly wait for the new model of their beloved smartphone to release. For years, Apple has maintained a level of class and price which slips the phone into the luxury end of the market. With multiple versions releasing each year, it’s often tough to decide which models are worth purchasing and which ones aren’t/ In case you’re looking at the iPhone 14, but can’t pick between iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max, here’s a detailed comparison to help you make an informed choice.
Price
One of the most important factors anyone has to take into consideration prior to purchasing a phone is the price. iPhone is determined to cater to multiple budgets with iPhone 14 series, which is why you have 3 options to choose from. Although the iPhone 14 Pro Max is the most expensive on the list and comes at a starting price of $1099, it also comes with a technology upgrade feature. However, if that’s not something that fits your budget, you can still choose between the iPhone 14 Plus, which has a starting price of $899 and the iPhone 14, which has a starting price of $799.
If you feel these prices are a little too high for you, there are multiple options you can go with in order to lower the price of your new iPhone. One of these is a monthly payment scheme, which is the most obvious choice. However, if that’s not what you seek, you can also try selling your old phone to cash in on some money to put down for your new iPhone.
Screen Size
While screen size doesn’t matter to everyone, some people are quite particular about how large or how small their phones are. Although it’s common to believe that people will prefer a larger screen, it’s not necessarily the case. Someone with tiny hands might find it tough to control the iPhone 14 Max Pro, which is 6.7 inches. The iPhone 14 isn’t very small, but it’s more manageable at 6.1 inches. The iPhone 14 Plus is also as large as the Max Pro (6.7 inches). If your hands are not very tiny, then this phone size might be a pleasure to use, considering the clarity and attention to detail the phone offers.
Camera
Phone cameras play a huge role in choosing the right device and the iPhone 14 series offers a variety of options when it comes to camera selection for your phone. While the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus come with dual cameras at the back, the iPhone 14 Pro Max comes with three. Here’s what the cameras look like.
iPhone 14
- Main Camera - 12MP
- Second Camera - 12MP (UltraWide)
- Selfie Camera - 12MP
iPhone 14 Plus
- Main Camera - 12MP
- Second Camera - 12MP (UltraWide)
- Selfie Camera - 12MP
iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Main Camera - 48MP
- Second Camera - 12MP (Telephoto)
- Third Camera - 12MP (UltraWide)
- Selfie Camera - 12MP
When it comes to detailed capturing of a scenery, backdrop or even having to zoom in, the iPhone 14 Pro Max stands out thanks to its camera superiority, but that doesn’t mean the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are far behind. Their selfie camera is just as good as the Pro Max and it helps to freeze moments just as well. The video recording features of all three models are top-notch. The Cinematic mode helps achieve a shallow depth of field at 4K for 30 frames per second. The devices also offer action and sensor-shift optical image stabilization, which benefits TikTok users.
Battery Life
One of the most annoying features of a phone is its poor battery life. The last thing you want is for your phone to die on you before you get back home. To say the least, a phone should last long enough to go through the day and charge quickly, so you don’t need to wait hours for your phone to charge. Thankfully, the iPhone 14 series offers both of these features. The iPhone 14 comes with an impressive 3279 mAh battery and the Pro Max and Plus both have a 4325 mAh battery.
While the Pro Max and Plus can charge up to 50 percent of their battery in just 30 minutes, the iPhone 14 can get a complete charge in that amount of time due to the battery size difference as well as the phone size. All phones are compatible with wireless charging in case you’re not a fan of wires hanging around your space.
Hardware
The heart of any phone lies in its hardware and, irrespective of the make and model, it eventually boils down to how good the hardware is. Smartphones have something called a processing chip, which helps them function and perform all the smart tasks it does. The iPhone 14 Pro Max has the latest A16 Bionic chip as compared to the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, which still comes with the A15 Bionic chip.
While they are both highly effective, it’s only obvious that the A16 is better. While this won’t affect your usage too much, as stated above, it’s what is responsible for helping you get better technology.
Key Features
While the Apple iPhone 14 series has been a success and all three models are impressive, there are features that make the iPhone 14 Pro Max stand out. For starters, Apple has revamped the way users interact with their phones with the Dynamic Island feature which has bubbles up for music, FaceTime and multiple widgets which enable you to multitask just like you would on your computer.
The phone also offers 1TB capacity, which is way more than you need to store important and not-so-important data too. You can install multiple apps and your phone will still work just as smoothly as it did the first day you got it.
All iPhone 14 series phones share some common features which include Emergency SOS service which works via satellite. This feature enables users to send out an emergency text message even when there’s no mobile network or internet connection. These models also have a Crash Detection Function which uses multiple sensors to determine if you’re a victim of a crash. If this happens, your phone will call emergency services. In case you’re wondering, no, your phone won’t call an ambulance if you trip or drop your phone. This is, however, a handy feature for people who like traveling independently and venturing into less populated areas.
Really the only thing I dislike about MacOS as a whole is the way Apple updates the OS with huge update file downloads. Actually 700Mb is small compared to some Apple has released which are in the gigabyte size. These large file sizes also translate to long update times as well.
I like Emre, Onur, Shaun and Eray’s articles more, Ashwin and Martin are always complaining about something instead of getting excited and sharing their excitement with the world.
Ever since I started bookmarking their pages my mood has been so much better, I’m glad to be free of the depressing vibe the two of them have. Damn it feels good to just enjoy life and not look for things to complain like I used to while I were under their influence.
Personally I really like @Ashwin and @Martin articles both equally. Please respect the authors.
You realize that none of the authors you like are real people, right? They are AI bots ‘writing’ articles that are basically taken from product advertisements (e.g., “Get Protected the Right Way With Avast Free AntiVirus” Really?) So, yes they are excited, but the excitement comes from advertising copy. No real world negativity from those sources.
My approach is to use a UBlock Origin filter to block all the articles except those by Martin and Ashwin. It has made the site readable again for me.
I would like to achieve that as well. Mind sharing some UBlock tricks & tips? :)
@ Anonymous,
Go to this link from yesterday https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4573146 and scroll down to the post by “Anonymous said on September 2, 2023 at 1:33 pm” He (or she) posted instructions on how to skip articles written by users other than Martin and Ashwin.
You might want to consider changing your name before you post to make it easier for users to identify your comments.
@Herman Cost
You can add this to your rules in uBlock Origin:
ghacks.net##.hentry,.home-posts,.home-category-post:not(:has-text(/Martin Brinkmann|Ashwin/))
@John World. Than you dude. So much better.
Why does Martin even allow this garbage to ruin his website. Every single article not written by martin and ashwin reads like sensational clickbait, I don’t care about if I should buy the latest apple product every week, new roblox cock rings that don’t pull your pubic hair, elon musk’s new body spray or whatever bullshit these bots can come up with.
+I like Emre, Onur, Shaun and Eray’s articles more
you’ve made my day
It’s not the EU’s fault that Bing is such a crappy search engine. In any event it’s built into the OS and Microsoft does its best to convince users to adopt it over Google by making it the default search tool. A great Many Windows 11 users are not technically minded and don’t know how to switch to another search engine and just accept their lot.
In any event I hope the EU Commission doesn’t allow Microsoft to pull the wool over their eyes.
Both Google and Bing are now worthless. Nowadays, Yandex is the only search engine that finds anything I’m looking for.
Try https://sear.be.
Yandex is Russian and under Putin’s control. Search results you get may not be accurate and possibly manipulated to give you a false sense of security depending on what you’re looking for.
Bing is absolutely a gatekeeper. Except for countries such as China and Russia that have their own search engines (Baidu and Yandex), most of the world’s searches relies on just two search engines: Google and Bing.
Alternative search engines overwhelmingly get their search results from Bing. DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Swisscows, Excite, Lycos, Yahoo, You, etc. all use Bing behind the scenes for their results.
StartPage originally used the Google search engine for it’s results, but have also started using Bing as well recently.
Microsoft also use Bing as the default search engine in Windows (such as the Start menu search, Taskbar search, desktop search bar, Edge sidebar, etc.) and use Bing as the default search engine in Edge – which is the default browser on Windows. Windows has greater than 70% desktop market share and is used by more than two billion people.
Not to mention Microsoft’s anti-consumer efforts when it comes to Bing. They have a history of malicious intent by aggressively trying to trick users who use a different search engine and browser into resetting their default search engine and browser back to Edge and Bing (by displaying unscrupulous popup dialogue boxes and full screen pages prompting the user to change their settings back to the “recommended settings” – which is Edge and Bing).
@ ECJ,
Microsoft’s Bing has managed to sidestep the EU’s Digital Markets Act for now arguing that it doesn’t qualify as a gatekeeper: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3705935/eu-lists-gatekeepers-to-be-regulated-opens-imessage-and-bing-investigations.html
The easiest way to avoid Bing is never to use Edge. It’s not mandatory and you’re free to use which browser you wish. I use Floorp myself which is a Firefox fork with many extra privacy configurations. https://floorp.app/en/download/
“A report claims that Apple is developing an affordable MacBook series”
Its is time to stop posting Rumors as reports.
Apple has already a Chrombook killer. It is called : iPad.
I can see Apple getting concerned about losing sales to Chrome OS devices. Given that K-12 kids have probably been using Chromebooks and would be familiar with that platform going off to college. I remember when Apple ruled K-12 computer rooms and because they simply out priced the educational sector. Google managed to take a huge bite out of educational market especially with COVID. I never thought iPads worked in a K-12 setting, and mac’s are too expensive. I doubt Apple can really make a MacBook below $500 which would compete with Chromebooks.
I managed hundreds of ipads for schools when I worked at an MSP – ipads are certainly OK, and boy are they hundreds of times better than Android tablets. Chromebooks suck so much, their market penetration into school system became real when schools received a bunch from government
Apple has always had great diffculty grasping what “low cost” means. I don’t have much faith in them ever generating anything that can compete with a Chromebook, but I’ll buy it if they do. I don’t want a Google OS, Windows is getting painful, and I’m tired of hearing how great Linux is from people who don’t use it.
I agree with the posters above about the usefulness of using a uBO filter to limit the posts I see on this site to those from Martin and Ashwin.
While Apple has patched iOS 16 for this, they haven’t yet indicated if they’re going to for supposedly-still-getting-security-updates iOS 12 (the latest OS option for the millions of still-in-use iPhone 6) and iOS 15 (still in use on millions of iPhone 6s to 8, which can’t be upgraded to 16).
I hope they do. Long-term support is one area where Apple phones crush Android, and it’s the #2 reason I use them (#1 is because not a privacy nightmare).
Apple has now released security updates for iOS 12 and 15 to address this issue. This is how you keep loyal customers.
Released an update for iOS 15, yes; for iOS 12, no. It’s not clear from reading their release notes if this means iOS 12 is not affected, or if they’re just not bothering.
M3 won’t move the needle much on performance. Honestly, Apple has put itself in a bind making the M1 really good. Probably the first time when Mac users can have some real lasting performance. But that also means that many won’t be persuaded to upgrade as often either. I am using a M1 MacBook Air and a M1 Mac mini and have yet to even entertain upgrading to a M2 or even a future M3 model of either because I am very satisfied with the M1 performance.
I like iPhone in general have owned iPhones for many years. But I don’t see these Apple events inspiring me to want to upgrade and spend hundreds to get what few improvements offered up.
People still watch this nonsense? As I get older technology no longer excite me.
I love it – Apple took an objectively bad thing and turned it into something people don’t hate. “It’s not that our front camera/sensors cover up screen real estate, this is uhh, a dynamic island… Yeah! It’s a feature actually, you’re lucky to have it”.
@ bruh,
I like iPhone too, but you have to be a virtual millionaire these days to own one and I don’t have the kind of money required to purchase one I’m afraid.
2015??
“Sorry Series 8, Apple Watch Series 9 is as powerful as it is handsome”
“Apple to release iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 on September 18, and macOS Sonoma on October 26”
“Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2”
“Apple Watch Ultra 2 packs a punch to the older generation”
“Does it make sense to upgrade to iPhone 15?”
“iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max with Ray Tracing, Action Button announced”
“Apple announces iPhone 15 series with USB-C port, Dynamic Island”
Seven Applespams, all pushed out within a few hours. You should rename this site “AppleHack”.
I can’t believe people waste their money on smartwatches. The world has truly gone insane.
A total waste of money. Thats why people can’t afford basic necessities anymore. They just keep falling for Apple’s BS every year.
That is, if you don’t mind paying for Apple and their US Gestapo friends reading your most intimate data to use it against you.
> Apple also updated the macOS Sonoma 14 web page to reveal the release date of its desktop operating system. Sonoma will be released on October 26.
This is not true. The website says September 29. I have no idea where your October 26 comes from.
> Rumors suggest that Apple could announce the first M3 Mac in October, though another reliable leaker quashed hopes for any new MacBooks.
I am not aware of any _current_ rumor that suggests that there will be a M3 Mac before 2024.
Is this again an AI written article?
Just an FYI on the USB C situation.
The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus only use the USB-C end-connector. The actual cable attached to it transfers data at the many years old Lightning cable speed, which is USB 2.0 based. (Max 480 Mbits/s in ideal lab conditions.)
If you want iPhone USB data transfer at true USB 3.0 speed, then you have to pay more to buy the iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Plus, which transfers data at actual USB 3.0 speed (5 Gbit/s in ideal lab conditions).
Just another example of Apple using absurd (and very mean-spirited, IMO) down-grading of their lower-priced phone hardware. I mean, who else would sell an $799+ phone in 2023, using a data port that transfers at USB 2.0 speed?
The USB 2.0 spec was published in year 2000, 23 years ago.
The USB 3.0 spec was published in 2008 and the USB C connector spec was published in 2014, tho not widely adopted til paird with USB 3.2 in 2017, fyi.
Man, I find this stuff so cringy – but obviously, it appeals to a certain type of person. I have no issue with Apple, my only issue is that every other hardware and software manufacturer seem to just be trying to copy Apple, instead of coming up with original ideas & visions. I don’t blame Apple for “innovating” in whatever direction they feel necessary, I’m just annoyed that nobody else is,,,
Android is looking more like iOS, Windows 11 is looking more like MacOS, I had to set up a “premium” high-spec Dell laptop recently at work which just looked like a knock-off Macbook. It’s just sad.
People aren’t going to buy stuff that strays too far from the norm. Take for example foldables. I haven’t seen anyone personally that has one, nor are they “taking the market by storm”.
RE: Android looking more like IOS:
That ‘Material You’ garbage is thankfully nowhere near iOS. I think you might be referring to Samsung’s UI though. They try to keep things like Apple to win over Apple users (I think anyways). If it weren’t for Samsung’s UI though, Android would be totally a non-option for me, as Material You is just plain ugly.